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His Treatise on Civil Government (1781) is in many ways a delightful book, bluff, hardy, full of common sense, with, at times, a quaint humor that is all its own.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski praises Josiah Tucker's Treatise on Civil Government for its engaging and sensible approach to political thought.
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